Dave responds to the furore over his thumbs up rating on the Agilent U1253A Multimeter And it’s all about the love, really. ADDED COMMENT: Agilent make the exact same meter in an LCD version (U1251A or U1252A) with longer battery life. So you get the choice of display vs battery ...

Dave reviews the Agilent U1253A OLED Multimeter and compares it with the Fluke 87-V in this epic review. How will it stack up? Check out Stormbyte’s video response to my review. Some good points here which I address in #57. Podcast: Download

Dave can smell marketing bullshit a mile away, so checks out the new RCA WiFi Energy Harvesting “Airnergy” device with some back of the envelope calculations. Marketing BS? or can it actually work? The RCA video is HERE and another interview HERE Podcast: Download

Everything you need to know about how Thermocouples work. K type thermocouples, the Seebeck effect, the Seebeck coefficient, and cold junction compensation. Along with some practical measurements with a multimeter to demonstrate the effect. Seebeck effect on a single conductor NIST Tables Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download

I get many people ask were and how I host eevblog.com and the forum. The answer is HostGator at www.hostgator.com I use one of HostGators dedicated servers to host the wordpress website and forum. It’s an Intel Xeon E3-1220LV2 running at 2.3GHz, with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 500 GB RAID-1…